Quotes

[on Steve McQueen] One thing about Steve, he didn't like the women in his life to have balls.

[on the surprise success of Love Story (1970), her second starring role] If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut. I've since learned that surviving stardom depends on doing the work to find out who you are so that you don't define yourself by what people say about you. But nothing can prepare you for that kind of avalanche. The mistake is to take it for the end of the story.

I have seen a number of younger men, but it's not a conscious thing. Often it's difficult for a man over 40 to deal with the amount of independence that most women of my generation are enjoying. Nowadays I spend a lot of time by myself. I've spent a lot of time hanging out with Mr. Wrongs, but it beat that desperate Saturday night thing. 99% of Saturday nights, I'm in this house, eating some bizarre thing I whipped up, and reading.

I work as hard as anybody I know.

I'm much more famous than I am rich, but I'm able to scale back my lifestyle. I know a lot of people who were where I was who can't imagine living any simpler, but I haven't got a lot of expensive wants.

There's so much craziness that comes along with being a movie star that you can get so confused. Unless you've spent your whole life waiting to be the center of attention, it's pretty terrifying.

[on not getting alimony] I had a romantic, 'Aren't I a good girl?' take on divorce, but the truth is that was stupid. When one stops working at the height of one's career, it's just stupid not to say, 'I want to make sure I have a house.'